Bruce Anderson’s Herd-Bound
Regina-based artist Bruce Anderson’s Herd-Bound solo exhibition features large-scale oil paintings of familiar prairie landscapes. In his landscapes, Anderson includes horses to explore themes of displacement and loss using styles that make the horses feel out of place or disconnected within their environment. Horses have both accompanied and accelerated human migrations across continents through colonial and commercial trade. Anderson’s work invites us to look more closely at traditional, stereotypical Western scenes and to question what we think is natural. This exhibition also highlights Anderson’s piece Continental Drift: Herd-Bound And A Long Way From Home, a new acquisition to the Regina Public Library Permanent Collection.
